PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS

Surveys dates

Scope of the survey

ESPS 1996-1997-1998-2000-2002-2004: Households including at least one beneficiary of one of the main national health insurance funds (for salaried workers, farmers, or the self-employed), and who live in France (overseas territories excluded).

ESPS 1994-1995: Households including at least one beneficiary of either the national health insurance fund for salaried workers or the fund for the self-employed, and who live in France (overseas territories excluded).

ESPS 1993-1992-1991: Households including at least one beneficiary of the national health insurance fund for salaried workers.

ESPS 1990: Households including at least one beneficiary of the national health insurance fund for salaried workers, and who live in continental France (overseas territories excluded).

ESPS 1988-1989: Households including at least one beneficiary of the national health insurance fund for salaried workers, and who did not live in the Greater Paris region or in certain other specified départements (the département is a geographic subdivision of a region).

Sampling frame

Beneficiaries' files, and files on administered care furnished by the national health insurance funds for salaried workers, farmers, and the self-employed.

Method

Addition of a household questionnaire for individuals from the Epas (Echantillon permanent d'assurés sociaux), which is an ongoing sample monitored by the national health insurance fund for salaried workers.

Until 1997, 25% of individuals in the Epas were surveyed each year; since 1998, half of the Epas' population is surveyed every other year.

The principal questionnaire (socio-demographic data on the household to which the randomly chosen beneficiary belongs) is answered by phone (4 calls). For those with unlisted numbers or without phones, interviewers make two house calls to conduct the survey.

Self-administred questionnaires (supplementary health insurance, health and medical goods, recourse to a treatment center for the handicapped or disabled) are mailed to the sample population (or handled by interviewers for people with unlisted phone numbers or no phone).

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Changes in inequalities in access to ambulatory care over the last decade in France : How much and why ? Couffinhal A., Dourgnon P., Tubeuf S., In : Ecuity III Workshop. Les inégalités sociales de santé. Helsinki : Stakes. National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, 2004, 13 pages.